Autobiographical

My full-length book, Where We Think It Should Go, can be yours via Octopus Books, Small Press Distribution, or Amazon. We better celebrate these hard copies while we can. When I'm not writing poetry, I teach amazing young people who are blind. I believe in a healthier future.

Thursday, December 25, 2008

“A paean of love” — he was writing to a girlfriendAmerican gangster movies and British war filmsNoise within silence

“Words are weapons that the characters use to discomfort or destroy each other” “Such as the man preferred coffee but the other person wished him to have tea"Written out of “very cold anger"

The adjective Pinteresque as a byword for strong and unspecified menace

RealistBetween “primitive rage” and “liberal generosity"All studies of the unreliability of memory and the uncertainty of love

“I don’t go away and say: ‘I have illuminated myself. You see before you a changed person,'"

For inexplicable reasons, invite a homeless man named Davies To share their quarters and to act as a kind of custodianPolitical maneuvering, fraternal love, spiritual isolation, language as a negotiating Weapon or a form of cover-up

A stage version of his film script for “Remembrance of Things Past”

“The play is a comedy because the whole state of affairs is absurd and inglorious. It is, however, as you know, a very serious piece of work.”